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NOW · CURRENT STATUS

Open to Work AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY 🚀

Senior Product Management & Product Leadership Roles

Seeking full-time product leadership positions in Europe (Remote or Hybrid), as well as strategic advisory & contract product sprint engagements.

Jul 2025 — Jun 2026

Senior Product Manager

Appoteket AS · Norway (Remote Contract)
  • Owned roadmap for launch-ready digital pharmacy platform across Mobile app and Web, guiding squad to 90% launch readiness.
  • Architected core operational modules: Prescription Agreement, Orders, Order Management, Notifications, Medicine Cabinet, and Automated Inventory Management.
  • Designed pharmacist back-office review workflows and patient health tracking features.
Sept 2024 — Jul 2025

Product Manager — AI Search & Discovery

Insider One · Istanbul, Türkiye
  • Led end-to-end product lifecycle of Eureka (insiderone.com/eureka-search ↗), driving ~110% ARR growth across 40+ enterprise e-commerce brands.
  • Delivered 10+ major capabilities: hybrid semantic search, facet merchandising, Analytics 2.0, and native A/B testing suite.
  • Improved overall search CTR by ~10% while supporting 30M+ product catalogs with enterprise-grade SLA performance.
Jul 2021 — Sept 2024

Product Owner — Network Intelligence

P.I. Works · Istanbul, Türkiye
  • Owned roadmap delivery across 2 telecom products: ConfigureX and VantagePM (piworks.net/products#VantagePM ↗).
  • Shipped 20+ enterprise releases for global tier-1 operators (Turkcell, DISH Network USA, MTN Group Africa).
  • Launched real-time network KPI dashboards, ML anomaly detection, and predictive traffic forecasting for capacity planning.
Jul 2019 — Sept 2019

Front-end Developer Intern

JotForm · Ankara, Turkey
  • Built responsive web interfaces and reusable UI components for a global form builder SaaS.

I like hard product problems.

I am a product leader focused on turning complex technical and business challenges into products people can actually understand and use. With a Software Engineering background, I work deeply with engineering squads on APIs and systems architecture while championing continuous user discovery and cross-functional alignment (Sales, Marketing, Support, CS) to unlock measurable revenue.

E-Commerce & Merchandising AI & LLM Systems Enterprise B2B SaaS Hybrid Search & Discovery Telecom Big Data HealthTech & Operations Mobile & Web UX A/B Testing Suites
01 / DISCOVER

Understand the problem.

Continuous client interviews, query telemetry logs, and session analytics to uncover root issues.

02 / FRAME

Turn ambiguity into direction.

Formulate testable hypotheses, define North Star metric trees, and align business OKRs.

03 / BUILD

Bridge engineering & design.

Align API latencies and data schemas with frictionless, human-centered UX flows.

04 / MEASURE

Ship, learn and iterate.

Rely on statistical A/B tests and behavioral loops to prove ARR growth and optimize retention.

✦ Good products reduce complexity.
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⚡ Ship > Speculate.
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🔍 Data explains what. Discovery explains why.
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⚙️ Technical constraints are product inputs.
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🎨 Design is part of product strategy.
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Tools & Tech Stack

Figma
Jira & Confluence
ChatGPT & Claude AI
Postman & REST APIs
Firebase & SQL
GitHub & CI/CD
Mixpanel & Amplitude

Academic Foundation

2016 — 2021 · ANKARA, TURKEY
Software Engineering, B.Sc.
Atilim University
2020 · POZNAN, POLAND
Erasmus+ Program, Computer Science
Poznan University of Technology

Curriculum Vitae

Emre Can Simsek · Senior Product Manager
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Emre Can Simsek

SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER

Senior Product Manager with a Software Engineering background, experienced in owning end-to-end product development across B2B SaaS, consumer applications, enterprise platforms, AI-enabled products, and complex data-driven systems.

Istanbul, Türkiye Open to relocation to Europe +90 534 782 7164 emrepn97@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/emrecansimsekk/

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Product Manager — Appoteket AS Jul 2025 – Jun 2026
Norway · Contract · Remote
  • Owned the roadmap for a launch-ready digital pharmacy platform across Mobile app and Web.
  • Led a 10-person cross-functional team across product, engineering, QA, design, and pharmacy operations.
  • Owned core operational modules: Prescription Agreement, Orders, Order Management, Notifications, Medicine Cabinet, and Automated Inventory Management.
  • Took the product from early-stage development to 90% launch readiness.
  • Designed pharmacist and order workflows covering prescription review, payments, shipments, change requests, and customer notifications.
  • Designed patient health tracking workflows for vital measurements and recurring medication management.
Product Manager — Insider One Sept 2024 – Jul 2025
Istanbul, Türkiye
  • Led the end-to-end product lifecycle of Eureka, a B2B on-site search and discovery platform used by 40+ enterprise e-commerce brands.
  • Contributed to ~110% ARR growth in one year by improving engagement, upsell readiness, search, merchandising, analytics, and experimentation capabilities.
  • Improved overall search CTR by ~10% through relevance optimization, better merchandising controls, and search experience improvements.
  • Owned roadmap delivery across Search Pop-up, Search API, Category API, Merchandising, Analytics, and A/B Testing modules.
  • Delivered 10+ major capabilities including hybrid semantic search, time-based merchandising, banner merchandising, facet merchandising, Analytics 2.0, and A/B testing.
  • Launched A/B testing for search campaigns, enabling customers to compare variants, measure impact, and optimize search performance.
  • Supported high-traffic enterprise search use cases with catalogs of up to 30M+ products/documents and complex attribute structures with high-throughput SLA performance.
  • Worked directly with enterprise customers to improve CTR, conversion rate, no-result rate, and revenue per search.
  • Partnered with engineering, data, design, QA, Sales, Product Marketing, Technical Support, and Customer Success teams on product demos, workshops, solution design, and feature delivery.
Product Owner — P.I. Works Jul 2021 – Sept 2024
Istanbul, Türkiye
  • Owned roadmap delivery across 2 telecom products: ConfigureX and VantagePM.
  • Worked with global telecom operators including Turkcell, DISH, MTN Group Africa, and others.
  • Led VantagePM product capabilities for KPI monitoring, reporting, dashboards, anomaly detection, and traffic forecasting.
  • Delivered 20+ product initiatives across telecom performance management and network analytics.
  • Launched anomaly detection and traffic forecasting features to support faster issue detection and capacity planning.
  • Supported pre-sales, demos, workshops, and enterprise delivery for global operator customers, partnering with Solutions Architecture, Field Engineering, and Support.
Front-end Developer Intern — JotForm Jul 2019 – Sept 2019
Ankara, Türkiye
  • Built responsive web interfaces and reusable UI components.
  • Collaborated with developers and designers on user-facing product improvements.

EDUCATION

Atilim University Sept 2015 – Jul 2021
B.Sc. Software Engineering
Ankara, Türkiye
Poznan University of Technology Jan 2020 – Jul 2020
Erasmus+ · Computer Science
Poznan, Poland

SKILLS

PRODUCT
Product Strategy Roadmap Ownership E-Commerce Platforms B2B SaaS API Products Web & Mobile Products Stakeholder Management (Sales, Marketing, Support, CS) Cross-functional Leadership
AI & DATA
AI Product Management LLM-based Feature Design AI-assisted Prototyping Prompt Engineering Workflow Automation Semantic Search A/B Testing Product Analytics
TOOLS
Jira Confluence Figma Firebase Claude ChatGPT Gemini Google Stitch GitHub Postman Excel / Google Sheets